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-rw-r--r--drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
index affff81..9a02c45 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
@@ -544,9 +544,11 @@ __hwmon_device_register(struct device *dev, const char *name, void *drvdata,
struct device *hdev;
int i, j, err, id;
- /* Do not accept invalid characters in hwmon name attribute */
+ /* Complain about invalid characters in hwmon name attribute */
if (name && (!strlen(name) || strpbrk(name, "-* \t\n")))
- return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ dev_warn(dev,
+ "hwmon: '%s' is not a valid name attribute, please fix\n",
+ name);
id = ida_simple_get(&hwmon_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
if (id < 0)
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